“Teach me, and I will hold my tongue, and make me understand how I have erred.
I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why You contend with me.
How many are my iniquities and sins? Make known to me my transgression and my sin.
Indeed, I waited for your words; I listened to your reasons, while you searched out what to say.
“Therefore, Job, I pray, hear my speeches, and listen to all my words.
teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do no more’?
“Behold, we have investigated all this, and it is so; hear it, and know for yourself.”
Or, ‘Deliver me from the power of the enemy’? Or, ‘From the power of the oppressors, liberate me’?
How forceful are right words! But what does your arguing prove?
Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
We all stumble in many ways. But if any man does not stumble in what he says, he is a complete man and able also to control the whole body.